Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

BelGioioso Cheese - Byron

Brownsville, WI · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BelGioioso Cheese - Byron runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

BelGioioso Cheese - Byron: 5.4 TCR = 165% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BelGioioso Cheese - Byron safety composite

BelGioioso Cheese - Byron scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

BelGioioso Cheese - Byron: 3.9 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

BelGioioso Cheese - Byron's TCR rose 4.6 from 3.9 in 2022 to 8.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Brownsville, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 165% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #88/171
  • PHOTO Jerome Cheese Co
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jerome Cheese Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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BelGioioso Cheese - Byron in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows BelGioioso Cheese - Byron averages 5.4 TCR (165% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

BelGioioso Cheese - Byron TCR series: 2022=3.9 · 2023=4 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 3.3

Where BelGioioso Cheese - Byron falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

BelGioioso Cheese - Byron (25 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate BelGioioso Cheese - Byron
BelGioioso Cheese - Byron (25 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

BelGioioso Cheese - Byron has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 8.5 4.2 2 0 0
2023 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Brownsville

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 20 employers in Brownsville, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Jerome Cheese Co 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marathon Cheese Corporation Mt. Home 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Betin Inc - Belmont 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fergusons Minnesota Harvest LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minocqua Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Janesville Headquarters 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berlin Office 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michels Corporation-WI-Brownsville 654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michels Pipeline Inc-WI-Brownsville 609 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michels Fleet- WI- B 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michels Fleet- Brownsville 320 FTE
NAT-TCR 5327-RAM Main 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Center City 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6672 East San Jose 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR BM Transport, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bi State Construction Company 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tucson AZ - Larson Camo 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE AVE Phoenix Terra 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE AVE Somerset 25 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.